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foggy

[ fog-ee, faw-gee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, fog·gi·er, fog·gi·est.

thick with or having much fog; misty:
a foggy valley;
a foggy spring day.
covered or enveloped as if with fog:
a foggy mirror.
(of thinking, ideas, etc.) dim or unclear as if obscured by fog; vague:
I haven't the foggiest notion of where she went.
Synonyms: muddleheaded, muddled, fuzzy, befuddled
bewildered; confused:
Difficulties with memory, concentration, attention, and fatigue left me feeling foggy and muddled much of the time.
Photography. affected by fog.

foggy

/ ˈfɒɡɪ /

thick with fog
obscure or confused
another word for fogged
not the foggiest or not the foggiest idea or not the foggiest notion
no idea whatsoever
I haven't the foggiest

Origin of foggy¹

First recorded in 1520–30; fog ² + -y ¹; original sense was “marshy, thick, murky”

On a cold, foggy night On Feb 26, 1998 I walked out a dingy hotel in handcuffs.

Do you realize that after six in the evening it fogs over and is foggy at dawn, too?

“Its foggy wording and odd locution stand out in the Constitution,” Waldman writes.

Clinton has much to be proud of from her Foggy Bottom tenure, reset included.

Back at Foggy Bottom… More than three years after U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq, nation-building proceeds apace.

The morning was wet and foggy, and the Prussians surprised the French and cut them off from the road to Paris.

All at once he remembered his promise, and a cunning loophole dawned in his foggy brain.

The night, I remember, was warmly foggy when after midnight we went to finish our talk at my house.

He could not help but voice that plaint, as he had so many times before during that foggy, nightmare journey.

He jumped out of bed, dressed, tore down the lane through a foggy dawn, and ascended the hill.

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